Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attack
Bells ring out across French capital marking 10th anniversary of country’s deadliest peacetime attack
France has paid tribute to the 130 people killed 10 years ago by Islamic State gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted a stadium, bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.
“The pain remains,” Emmanuel Macron wrote on social media on Thursday as he visited each of the sites that were attacked. Bells rang out across the city as a remembrance ceremony began at a memorial garden in central Paris attended by relatives and survivors.
Crowds gathered at the Place de la République after a minute of silence was held at every attack site.
François Hollande, the president at the time of the attacks, recalled the “horror” of being told of the rising death toll from the deadliest attack on French soil since the second world war. “Ten years ago, people united,” he said.
